View Full Version : do we have to dawnload themes again?
abispac
03-03-2010, 12:36 PM
i spent so much time downloading themes, and i wonder if i have to redownload them again? as they are not working on the new hyperspin....or m i doing something wrong? thanks
kronic24601
03-03-2010, 01:36 PM
no you are correct. You need to download the new themes. Sorry.
Lord Rippington
03-03-2010, 01:43 PM
Go gold dude and download 'em all at once! :top:
You don't have to re-download. Shimoda created an application that we used to zip most of the old files. Check out his repacking utility (http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?p=61888#post61888).
abispac
03-03-2010, 02:24 PM
good tool,now we hope he can apply a batch utilyty for it, until now ,ill save some money to donate and become gold.....
gixxer61108
03-04-2010, 11:32 AM
Anyone know how to just add background art? B4 I just had all my backglass pngs in the background folder,I tried the obvious n moving them to the video folder nothing.wheel art is fine even if I van get 1 default image rather than a black screen would be fine. I really don't feel like making a hundred or so themes just 4 backgrounds;) thanks to all you that post here it's a ton a help;)
BadBoyBill
03-04-2010, 11:35 AM
Just put them in the backgrounds folder.
shimoda
03-04-2010, 11:56 AM
good tool,now we hope he can apply a batch utilyty for it, until now ,ill save some money to donate and become gold.....
Two things:
1. Do save the money and join the gold crew!
2. The reason I made this a one-per-run repacker was in case you were packing a system theme with a hyphen. The new naming convention solves several problems, among them confusion over dates and names and standardizing things just plain keeps them neat. However, for systems like the PC-FX with hyphens in the name, the utility would parse that and rename PC.
If you need a repacker that will batch repack your entire MAME folder for example, I can do that no problem, I have one at home that I can post. Only thing is, some of the old themes had faulty backgrounds (wrong size) and will not work. There aren't many but I may still have the tool somewhere that replaces those backgrounds as well. Again the problem there is that it doesn't differentiate b/w dupes.
If I can find that one, I'll just post it here.
gixxer61108
03-04-2010, 12:41 PM
Just put them in the backgrounds folder.
Na didn't work in there that's why I moved them to videos, it's the only 1 that I added without the new wizard,I'll bet I messed up that way! Whoop! When I get home I'll give it another try. Thanks 1 more question the wife wants to know when will the arcade thingy be done;)